^^We're training up Great British Athlete 'Andy Murray' to wear shoulder pads and a helmet...so watch out! It's time for America to stop acting like an eastern block country and open up to the rest of the world. I hear Rangers are looking for an alternative sport.

^Rhodes...we nearly went there from Turkey but in the end we were too lazy. It was once the centre of the civilised world you know.

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

Did you know that what was once, and not very long ago either, a major operation requiring bone saws and heart-lung machines, leaving huuuuuuge scars and a looooong stay in hospital, is now a procedure done via a tiny incision and watched on screens like a computer game?

If the heart is the engine of the body, I am now the proud owner of one that runs like a Rolls Royce, instead of the Trabant it used to emulate.

Congratulations Tig! (What was the operation? You know I'm nosey about these things, PM me if you don't want to put the answer out on the web.)

Glad to hear you're feeling better.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Did you know that The Poisoned Rose by Elvis Costello contains all the notes and all* the chords, and never in the same order twice? We tried to learn it earlier this evening, but ended up saying " it, we'll do a Status Quo cover instead. Fewer chord changes..."

*with the obvious exception of F demented, which only Richard Thompson can play.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Did you know that the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, was himself shot by Boston Corbett? Corbett was a very strange man who, some years earlier, had castrated himself to avoid the temptations of prostitutes.

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

black bart wrote:Did you know that the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, was himself shot by Boston Corbett? Corbett was a very strange man who, some years earlier, had castrated himself to avoid the temptations of prostitutes.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

black bart wrote:Did you know that the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, was himself shot by Boston Corbett? Corbett was a very strange man who, some years earlier, had castrated himself to avoid the temptations of prostitutes.

black bart wrote:In fact Boston Corbett was on a mission to capture John Wilkes Booth alive but he took it upon himself to shoot Booth through the neck. You have to admire Corbett's balls...oh no, perhaps not

Then why did he shoot him through the neck? Was he acting in a threatening manner? And don't worry about that last part. It's safe to say such things in our very accepting company.

Roland Deschain - Half prophet, half gunslinger, all Pastafarian!

"Since Alexander Pearce escaped, over 250 people have disappeared in the Tasmanian wilderness. No remains have ever been found." - Dying Breed